Saturday Notes: For NASCAR fans out there, I saw Bill Elliot at lunch. I was eating with my father at the Dawsonville Pool Room, and Elliot...

Weirdness: Fuzzy has tagged me with a meme called "Six Weird Things." I'm a little bemused by it. "Post 6 weird things ...

Molly Ivins died on Wednesday, same day Grim posted about that idiot Arkin. When I arrived home from night classes, I kissed the three kidd...

Election Fraud: Feeling bad about how little trust there is in our elections? Read this, which features famous gunfighter Johnny Ringo in t...

CFR on Thailand: The Council on Foreign Relations has a new fact sheet on the Thai insurgency . I appreciate people trying to make the comp...

The Trunk Monkey: I know it sounds odd, but I have seen nothing lately so encouraging about the good sense of the American people than this ...

Arkin II: I don't think I'm going to spend any more time on Arkin, thanks. However, he's decided he's enjoying the attentio...

The Ultimate Indoor Philosophy: Via Arts & Letters Daily , we have an article on Judith Reagan . Reagan, who once promised to 'eat ...

Well, this works. And Arkin can DIAF.

Ahem: You should probably read Fuzzy's post about Mr. Arkin . This is a remarkable sort of writing: These soldiers [from the NBC piece ...

104.3: Not Quite Yet I went into the barn this morning to get the axe, and the radio was on (as always). It was set to 104.3 FM out of Atl...

"A Bridge Too Far": Given the difficulties with the "New Blogger," I'll take the liberty of reminding everyone that ...

Updation: I apologize to all my co-bloggers, who will have to create Google accounts to post here. Blogger went through the "hey, want...

Indoor Philosophy: Edward Abbey famously slammed a whole school of metaphysics using a phrase I think he had from Muir himself . Muir used...

"Orchid Daze" at the ABG: Today, grandma was meant to run off with the boy, and I was meant to take my wife on a nice horseback ri...

Happy Australia Day: I had meant to say some words about the wonderful people of Australia, our most faithful ally and truest friend in the ...

PJM Specials Today: The second part of the "Islands" series is available. It's interesting to see his comments on the role o...

Horses I have Known II: Design v. Evolution Since you folks liked the horse pictures so much the last time, I thought I'd post a couple...

Good Wishes to BloodSpite: Horseman and former Special Forces blogger Bloodspite had some hard news this week. I'm a little late getti...

"Dick Cheney's Death Stare" Heidi at Euphoric Reality laughs at Wolf Blitzer , who backpedals as fast as I've ever seen a ...